The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-12-09

head up like thati have you Tot the tooth.
achei" and then, In English, 81 say, I'm
awful hungry. Why, Job, you old son Of
Agun, where the deuce have We Rottonow
-ehl"
II am sure I wish I knew, Nh. Leo" said
job, edging s~uspictously past Aycsha,
whom he still regarded with the utmost
disgust and horror, being by no means
Z that she wa not an animated Z
sbut you mustn't talk, MI. Leo; you've
been very Ill, and given us a great deal Of
~hanxiety; and Il this Indy" looking at
Ayesha, "would DO 80 kind as to move, III
bring you your soup"
This turned Leo's attention to the s1ady.0
who was standing by in perfect silence.
"Hullo," he said; "that % not Ustane-
where is Ustanet"
Then, for the first time, Aycsha smoke to
him, and her first words were q lie; "She
has gone from hence upon a visit" she
said, land, behold, I am here shine hand.
madden"
. Ayesha,s silver notes seemed to puzzle
his half-awakened intellect, as also did her
corpse-like wrappings. However, he said
nothing ut the time, but drank off his SCUM
greedily enough, and then turned over
AN oANlVe S0A4 Vl1A VlA0 OvCuluXs w kSu ll0
woke the second time he saw me, and be-
gan to question me as to what had hap
pened, but I had to put him of as best I
could till the morrow, when he awoke al
most m~fraculously better. Then I told
him something of his illness and Of my do
ings, but as Ayesha was present I could
not tell him much, except that she was the
queen of h country. and we'll disposed
fOyryNN0 N,o md that Sk ~rvno ho~ ~vn~...~. a.
go yelled; for though Of course I spoke in.
English, l was afraid that she might un-
derstand what we were saying from the
expression Of d faces. and besides, I re-
membered her warning.
On the following day Leo got up, almost
entirely recovered. The flesh wound in
naturally a vigorous onc, had shaken OFF
the exhaustion consequent on his terrible
fever with q rapidity that I can only at
tribute to the effects of the wonderful drug
which Ayesha had given to him, and also
to the fact that his illness had been too
short to reduce him very much. With his
returning health came back tull ~rccollec-
ton of all his adventures up to the time
when he had lost consciousness in thu
marsh, and Of course Of Ustane also, to
whom 1 discovered he had grown consid-
crably attached. Indeed, he overwhelmed
me with questions about the poor girl,
which I did not dare to answer, for after
Leo's first Weakening She had sent for me,
and again warned mo solemnly that / was
to reveal nothing of the story to him, deli
cately limiting that Il l did it would be tho
worse for me. She also, for the second
time, cautioned me not to tell Leo any
%1,i i, 0.,o <1,r>r xx,nc n11S~aI D1,o,,< 1,ow
self, saying TINT she would tell him in her
own time.
Indeed, her whole manner changed.
After all that / had seen / had expected
that she would take the earliest oppurtun-
ity of claiming the man she believed to be
her old-world lover; but this, for some rca-
son of her own. which was ut the time
quite inscrutable to me, she did not do.
All that she did was to attend to his wants
quietly, and with a humility that was in
striking contrast with her former impert-
ous bearing, addressing him always In a
tone of something very like respect, and
keeping him with her rs much as possible.
OF course his curiosity was as uchexcited
about this mysterious woman as my own
had been, and he was particularly anxious
to see her face, which I had, without en-
tering into particulars, told him was as
lovely as her form and voice. This in it.
self vas enough to raise the expectations
of any young man to a dangerous pitch,
| and had it not been that he had not as yet
completely shaken of the effects Of illness,
and was much troubled in his mind about
Ustane, of whose affection and brave devo.
tton he spoke in touching terms, I had NO
doubt that he would have entered into hel
plans, and fallen in love with her by nm
t%icipation. AS it was, however, he was
simply wildly curious, and also, like my
self, considerably awed, for though no hint
hid been given to MIN by her of her extra
ordinary age, he not unnaturally came ia
identify her with the woman spoken of on
the potsherd. At last, quite driven into q
corner by his continual questions, which
he showcrcd on mo while he WIS dressing
on this third morning, l referred him t.
Aycsha, saying, with perfect truth, that
did not know where Ustane was. Accord:
ing!y, after he had eaten a hearty break.
fast, we adjourned into She's presence, fol
her mutes had orders to admit Us at oil
hours.
She was, MS usual. seated in what,
want of n hntter term wa cnllrl her
doir, and, on tho curtains being drawn
she rose from her couch and, stretching
out both hands, came toward to greet US
or, rather, Leo; for I, as may be imagined
was now quite left in the cold. 1t was ;
pretty sight to see her yelled form gliding
toward the sturdy young Englishman
dressed in his gray-fannel suit; for though
he is half q Greek in blood, Leo is, withth
exception Of his hair, one Of the mos
English-lOoking men I ever saw. He ha